A ROTARIAN TO REMEMBER
On Saturday 14th May 2016, well over 100 people gathered for a special Rotary occasion.
A sandstone Monument and 4 sandstone timber topped seats were unveiled to celebrate 64 years of continuous, Active Service to Rotary, by PP Rod Radford PHF, aged 96.
The Monument was unveiled by his great grandson, Logan Ascot Radford, aged 11 years, on behalf of the Rotary Club of Umina Beach.
Rod opened a Pharmacy in Ferry Road Ettalong 1945.
The Monument also informs the locals of many years of community service delivering urgent medicines to the Peninsula area with, firstly his “rowing boat” for 20 years, then with his “Amphicar” all before the Rip Bridge connected Daleys Point to Ettalong in the early 1970’s. (See Rod Radford Story – attached) Rod also used his car for many projects run by his Rotary Club and over the ten years he wore out two of them.
Tony Nassar, a restaurateur in Cooma, also has a working ”Amphicar”. Tony brought his car up from Cooma to help “re-create” the car trip over the water from Rod’s home at Wagstaffe to Ettalong. Rowan Hatfield is restoring Rod’s old rusted car in Indooroopilly, Qld. Rowan also came down for this event. The event was two years in the planning/ approval stage.
